Rob,
Ariba has a network that will connect all their customer and this is their stength at the present time. Ariba does receive a percentage of the transactions that occur on this netork and that number is now starting grow to be significant whereas, in the past most revenue came from licensing.
Customers Consumer Products
ApplianceZone Cargill Clorox Diageo DuPont Earthgrains EGarden.com eOutlet FoodMarketExchange.com Hallmark iCongo.com ICS FoodOne INC2inc Kmart Kraft Foods Molson Nestlé Sonoco Products Co. Staples Target Corporation TradingCars.com plc Transora Unilever VF Corporation WhatsHotNow Zoho
Customers Energy
ABB Group Alliant Energy American Petroleum Exchange buyingpower Caltex Chevron Corporation Enron Hydro One NetworkOil pennNet PetroCosm SCANA Corporation Texaco TheTradingHouse.com
Customers Financial Services
ABN AMRO American Express Corporate Services Arthur Andersen Banco Santander Central Hispano Bank of America Bear Stearns Charles Schwab CIBC CNA Insurance Commonwealth Bank of Australia Credit Lyonnais Deloitte Consulting Digital Insight E*TRADE First Data Corporation Fleet Bank KeyCorp Lloyds TSB Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Royal & SunAlliance Royal Bank of Canada St. Paul Companies Standard Bank Transamerica Union Bank Of California Visa Corporation VisibleMarkets
Customers HealthCare
Kaiser Permanente Medmundo.com Neoforma.com
Customers High Technology
Accenture Adfusion ADP Adquira AMD AMS AsiaDemand Asista.com Inc. Atos Origin Autodesk Biztro BtoBen.com Cadence Cisco Systems Comdais.com Commerx Corrigo Cypress Semiconductor Dell Computer Corporation e2open Hewlett-Packard IBM IndustryNetworks ITNation.com J.D. Edwards Just2Clicks LatinB2B Lexmark Litton PRC Lucent Technologies National Semiconductor OfficeTempo.com OPExchange Optimum Logistics Parametric Technology Corporation Philips ProcuraDigital Procuron Raytheon Seagate Technology, Inc. Siebel Systems SkillsVillage SOFTBANK Tasmania Business Online Unisys USinternetworking Inc.
Customers Manufacturing
Alcoa Alfa American Honda Motor Co., Inc. AsiaPaperMarkets.com Audi Azurix B2Build Bethlehem Steel BMW buzzsaw.com CEMEX CheMatch.com Cleveland Cliffs ClickTex.com ConstruMix Dana Corporation Deere & Company eLogex Holderbank Honeywell Laporte plc MetalSpectrum Mindtrac.com Omnexus.com Orica PrimeAdvantage Rohm and Haas Company Rooster.com RubberNetwork.com Shaw Industries SPX Corporation TexBid Textilio.com Textron TI Group Volkswagen
Customers Marketplaces
Webb
Customers Pharmaceutical
Baxter Healthcare Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation Bristol-Myers Squibb Company CVS/pharmacy Dow Chemical Company Merck & Co., Inc. Novartis Pfizer
Customers Public Sector & Higher Education
bidgov.com Epylon GSA Auctions JuneBox.com LearningPays.com Naval Supply Systems Command Praetorian Group Purdue University State of California University of Miami
Customers Telecommunications
AAPT AIG Aliant BCE Emergis Bell Canada Cegetel Citizens Communications ComTech Telecommunications DACOM GTE MCI WorldCom Motorola RateXchange Sprint PCS Telecom New Zealand Telefónica US WEST
Customers Transportation
Allied Worldwide Canadian National Railway Company Federal Express Corporation HOTS Sabre SAirGroup Seapower Group Southwest Airlines Transnet Transplace.com
The above are all memeber of the Ariba market place which does the following:
Ariba B2B Commerce Platform Ariba Marketplace
Whether it's a spot market to clear excess raw materials in the metals industry or a new "virtual" distributor in the life science chemicals industry, B2B marketplaces and exchanges are emerging to serve each point of every industry's supply chain. These Web-based electronic marketplaces align buyers, suppliers, and commerce service providers into seamless trading communities, removing costly inefficiencies and delivering bottom line savings to all participants. The unmatched speed and configurability of these marketplaces make them pillars of the new B2B economy.
Ultimately, all businesses will buy on a marketplace, sell on a marketplace, host a marketplace or be marginalized by a marketplace. How will your company be impacted? And how can you equip for the B2B marketplace economy?
Ariba Marketplace™ is the industry's leading market enablement application, a flexible rapid-deployment solution designed to give market makers the advantage. In today's competitive environment, lost time is not only lost opportunity. It can mean falling too far behind in a race you can no longer win. Ariba Marketplace gives market makers the rapid-deployment, highly configurable enablement solution they need to succeed.
Market makers of all kinds find Ariba Marketplace their best path to market ownership. Suitable for all types of B2B exchanges - from horizontal procurement marketplaces to highly specialized vertical marketplaces and commodity exchanges - the Ariba Marketplace application bridges the gap between traditional buy-side and sell-side solutions. Ariba Marketplace provides an all-in-one solution that makes it easy for market makers to rapidly and effectively deploy online trading communities.
Ariba Marketplace offers users unmatched features: Rapid deployment methodology for the entire market making process, including assessment, design, creation, and management Flexible commerce process framework to manage transaction flow from requisition to payment Distributed administration capabilities to manage large buyer and supplier communities efficiently Detailed pricing and catalog management to reflect specific buyer/supplier relationships and market maker revenue models Sophisticated Ariba Dynamic Trade capabilities complement fixed-price catalog mechanisms Access to Ariba Commerce Services Network™ to leverage shared services and tap into the existing population of registered buyers and suppliers Deployment via self-installed CD for use locally or at an ASP or deployed as a network-hosted service. Ariba Marketplace offers benefits to all participants in the digital economy - buyers, suppliers and market makers - resulting in the ultimate B2B outcome: the win-win-win. Buyers find a broad selection of suppliers, improved pricing, and reduced transaction costs. Suppliers achieve better distribution to qualified buyers, access to new markets, and lowered sales costs. Market makers stand to gain the most, building high value businesses by distributing market and process efficiencies to marketplace participants.
Read additional information on the new releases of this product:
Ariba Marketplace 7.5
Ariba Marketplace Network Edition 4.0
Related Press Releases:
Ariba Announces Enhancements to Marketplace, Dynamic Trade Solutions New Features Enable Faster Time to Market for Market Makers, Increased Value for Marketplace Participants Sep 11, 2000
Ariba Sourcing Now Available Function-Rich Platform Introduces RFQ-Based Procurement along Commerce Services Network with Enterprise and Marketplace Editions
The following are customers of I2. However, I2 does not from what I understand connect all of them in one network. I am willing to be corrected:
Aerospace & Defense/Airlines Bell Helicopter Textron Boeing Company Lockheed Martin Corporation Raytheon Corporation U.S. Marine Corps
Automotive and Industrial Bridgestone Australia, Ltd. Carraro SpA Case New Holland Caterpillar, Inc. Consolidated Diesel Company Continental Tires Cooper Industries (Canada) Inc. Cummins Cycle & Carriage DaimlerChrysler Dana Corporation Deere and Company Donaldson Company Eaton Cutler-Hammer Fiat Ford Motor Company The Gates Rubber Company General Motors Holland Hitch Company Mercedes-Benz Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Narko Euro Trailers International Truck and Engine Nordberg Group Proton Renault Group The Sharon Tube Company Timken Bearings Toyota Motors Visteon Corporation Volkswagen AG Volvo Trucks North America Yazaki North America Yokohama Tire Corporation
Consumer Electronics/Consumer Durables industry (CECD) 3M American Shower and Bath B Ticino Baker Furniture Benckiser Bic Special Markets Division Black & Decker Bose Corporation Bush Industries Casio Electronics Canon Consumers Glass Delta Faucet Duni Eastman Kodak EMI Compact Disc Ericsson Fuji Film Canada Inc. GE Lighting Systems, Inc. General Electric Company Herman Miller Hewlett Packard IJBU Kimball Furniture LifeStyle Furnishings, Inc. Motorola Nikon Nokia Panasonic Philips Electronics PopStraw Company Samsung Electronics Seiko-Epson Simmons Company Sony Steelcase, Inc. Thomson Consumer Electronics Thomson Multimedia SA Timex Canada Inc. Uniwill Corporation Walt Disney/Buena Vista Home Video Werner Co. Whirlpool Corporation Wilson Sporting Goods Co. Wisconsin Label Group Zenith Electronics
Consumer Goods (CPG) 3M Alliant Foodservice Andrew Jergens Company Asian Paints Ault Food Limited Avon Cosmetics Bayer Blue Diamond Growers Borden, Inc. Brach & Brock Confections Brewer Distribution Inc. Bristol Myers Squibb British American Tobacco Carter Holt Harvey Australia Central Soya Company, Inc. Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma (FEMSA) Ciba-Geneva Clorox Coca-Cola Amatil Coca-Cola Bevande Italia Coca-Cola Fuji Coca-Cola International Coca-Cola Near East Coca-Cola Trading Company Coldwater Seafoods Cole Sewell Corporation Consumers Packaging Inc. Coors Corning Consumer Products Company Cullman Ventures Del Monte Foods Dole Dreyers EBCO Manufacturing E.D. Smith & Sons E&J Gallo Winery Elizabeth Arden (Canada) Inc Fleischmann's Yeast/Burns Philip NA Fresh Delmonte Frito-Lay, Inc. Gorton Group Grupo Gamesa H.J. Heinz Company of Canada, Ltd. International Home Food Products, Inc. Kraft General Foods Canada Inc. Leiner Health Products Lion Nathan Lipton L'Oreal Lykes Bros. Inc. M&M/Mars, Inc. Maksan Manisa Mesrubat Kutulama Sanayii Mary Kay Michael Foods Minute Maid Company Nabisco Brands Ltd. Canada Nabisco Brands, Inc. Ore-Ida Foods, Inc. Oregon Freeze Dry PepsiCo Pfizer Inc. Philip Morris USA Pilgrim's Pride Corporation Playtex Products Corporation Procter & Gamble Ralston Purina Rich Products Corporation Ruiz Food Products, Inc. Sabritas Select Beverages SF Services Sherwin Williams Simplot Australia Pty Ltd. SPAL Industria Brasileira de Bebidas, S.A. Specialty Brands, Inc. Superior Coffee Tone's Brothers Triarc Tropicana United Distillers and Vintners United States Tobacco Company Walt Disney/Buena Vista Home Video Warner Lambert Canada, Inc. Wise Foods
Energy & Chemicals Energy Ashland, Inc. BP Amoco Castrol, Inc. CITGO Petroleum Corp. Enron Corporation Equiva/Equilon/Motiva ExxonMobil Corporation Pan Canadian Tesoro Petroleum TradeRanger Unocal
Chemicals Asian Paints, Ltd. Bayer Corporation Chattem, Inc. ChemicalsWorld Engelhard Corporation Flint Ink GE Plastics Honeywell Inc. Mississippi Chemical Corporation Occidental Chemical Corporation Polimeri Europa PPG Industries Rohm & Haas Company Shell Chemical
Fullfillment, Logistics, Transportation Allied Worldwide Inc. Cardinal Logistics Management, Inc. Federal Express Corporation Ryder Integrated Logistics Thiel Logistik AG UPS World Wide Logistics
High Tech Computers & Electronics Acer Incorporated ADTRAN, Inc. Allen Bradley Company, Inc. Apple Computer, Inc. Applied Magnetics Corporation Applied Materials Arima Computer Corporation Avenet Computer Group BancTec, Inc. Bell Microproducts Benchmark Electronics, Inc. Bluegum Technology Limited Canon Computer Systems Inc. Celestica International Channell Commercial CISCO Systems, Inc. CM Technologies Compaq Computer Corporation Creative Technology Ltd. Data General Corporation Dell Computer Corporation EFTC Corporation Elamex S.A. de C.V. EMC Corporation Emerson Electric Ericsson Mobile Communications Fujitsu-Siemens Computers Fujitsu Computer Products of America General Electric Capital Corporation Gennum Corporation Grayhill, Inc. Hewlett-Packard Company Hoffman Engineering IBM Inventec Corporation Iomega Kent Electronics Kimball Electronics Kingmax Technology Komag, Inc. LG-EDS Systems, Inc. Lite-On Technology Lucent Technologies, Inc. Maxtor Corporation Microage/Pinacor Micron Electronics Mitac International Modus Media Intl Pte. Ltd. Motorola, Inc. National Instruments NCR Corporation Newbridge Networks Nortel Networks Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company Philips Consumer Electronics Primetech Electronics, Inc. Quantum Corporation Raychem Ltd. Seagate Technology Seiko Epson Corporation Sequent Computer SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) Sheldahl Inc. Siemens Solectron Corporation Sony Electronics Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. Sun Microsystems Tech Data Corporation TechnologyNet.com Texas Microsystems, Inc. THOMSON Multimedia SA Tokyo Electron Ltd. Unisys Corporation United Technologies Uniwill Computer Corporation Xircom, Inc. Zenith Electronics
Metals Aceros Camesa AHMSA Allied Machine & Engineering Avgold, Ltd. Beta Steel Corporation Bethlehem Steel Corporation BHP Steel British Steel Carpenter Technology Corporation CSH Duferco Steel Processing EWK Fletcher Challenge Steel Galvak Hanna Steel Corporation Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. Hydro Aluminum Hylsa IMSA Ispat Inland, Inc. Iscor Limited Kaiser Aluminum Kawasaki Steel Logan Aluminum LTV Copperweld LTV Steel Company, Inc. Lucchini Mannesmann MetalSite MetalSpectrum National Steel Corporation North Star Steel Nova Hut Nucor Steel Pechiney-Rhenalu POSCO RMI Titanium Roberts Industries Sharon Tube Sidmar Sollac Montataire Stahlwerke Bremen Taubensee Steel & Wire Timken Industrial Bearings Timken Steel Usinor U.S. Steel Vacuumschmelze VAW Vitkovice Walsin Steel Weirton Steel Corporation Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation Worthington Steel
Paper Boise Cascade Grant Forest Products Inc. Inland Paperboard and Packaging Inc. Mead Corporation Sonoco Products Company
Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare 1-2-3 eMed, Inc. 3M Dental Products Division Abbott Laboratories Akzo Nobel Astra Pharma Inc. Aventis Pharmaceuticals Boehringer Ingelheim Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. Ciba Vision Corporation CVS Pharmacy eHospitalSystems.com Encore Orthopedics Gambro AB Genexis.com Johnson & Johnson Leiner Health Products Life Technologies, Inc. Mayo Clinic McNeil Consumer Products Medical Laboratory Automation Medtronic Merck & Co., Inc. Napp Pharmaceuticals Neoforma NewHealthExchange Novartis Canada P.F. Laboratories, Inc. PlanetRx.com R.P. Scherer Corporation Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Inc. Sofamor Danek Group, Inc. Smithkline Beecham Inc. Tyco Healthcare US Surgical Corp. Vitalz
Retail A&P Academy Sports Ace Hardware Ahold USA, Inc.(Bi Lo) Amazon.com Ames Department Stores Auto Zone Inc. Barnes & Noble Bear Creek Corporation Best Buy BHS/Mothercare Bradlees Stores, Inc. C&J Clark Ltd. (UK) Delhaize Freres Dominicks eCampus El Corte Ingles eToys.com Fabri-Centers of America Family Dollar Stores Federated Department Stores Food Lion Inc. Foods 4 Less (Ralphs) Fred Meyer Stores, Inc. Galleries Lafayette/Mag Info Garden.com Guess, Inc Gymboree Corporation Hannaford Bros. Co. Home Depot Homebase Ltd. Homebase, Inc. Hoogenbosch Beheer BV House of Fraser Isetan J Sainsbury PLC J. C. Penney Company, Inc. Jitney Jungle Stores Jusco Tatebayashi Just Jeans Kay-Bee Toy Stores Kmart Australia Kmart Corporation Kohl’s Department Stores Kroger Corp/Peytons L&N Home Stores Scotland Laura Ashley (UK) Lowes Cos. Inc. Marks Work Wearhouse Ltd. Migros - Nordstrom, Inc. Office Depot Payless Cashways, Inc. Payless ShoeSource, Inc. Peacocks (UK) Petopia.com Phar-Mor, Inc. PlanetRX Polo Retail Publix Super Markets, Inc. Roses Stores, Inc. Safeway Stores PLC Safeway, Inc Schnuck Markets, Inc. Scotty’s, Inc Sears Clothing (UK) Sears, Roebuck and Company Selfridges Ltd. (UK) Shopko Stores, Inc. Spencer Gifts Suresave Supermarket Tesco Stores The Limited, Inc. Toysrus.com Universal City Studio Venator Group, Inc. Vons Cos.,Inc. W.H.Smith Ltd. (UK) Wakefern Food Corp. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc Waremart Stores WH Smith Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. Woolworth’s Australia Woolworths Germany Woolworths South Africa Woolworths UK WRE
Semiconductors Advanced Micro Devices Agilent Technologies Altera Corporation American Microsystems Amkor Technology Cypress Semiconductor Dallas Semiconductor Fairchild Semiconductor Fujitsu Ltd. Infineon Technologies Integrated Device Technology Medtronics, Inc. National Semiconductor Corp. NEC On Semiconductor Philips Semiconductors, B.V. Samsung Semiconductor Division SEH America, Inc. ST Micro Electronics Sun Microsystems Texas Instruments Toshiba Semiconductor UMC Vitesse Semiconductor
Softgoods Bali Company Clarks International LifeStyle Furnishings Inc. Pacific Dunlop Limited Polo Ralph Lauren Corp.
Telecommunications AT&T Wireless Ericsson Mobile Communications AB Nokia Corporation Nortel Northern Telecom SBC Communications/SBC Wireless
So my opinion is both are good firms.
Glenn |